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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Vauxhall Constituency – Biography of Heinemann

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Vauxhall Constituency – Biography of Heinemann

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Vauxhall

    CANDIDATE : Heinemann

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss M. Heineman was born in 1913 and took her B.A. with first-class honours at Cambridge. She was first a teacher in Birmingham and then a research worker for the trade union movement, and for some years edited the publication ” Labour Research.” A writer and lecturer, she turned to Communism as a result of the hunger marches through London in the nineteen-thirties.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Chair

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Chair

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington South

    CANDIDATE : Chair

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Somerset de Chair, author, aged 39, was educated at King’s School, New South Wales, where his father was Governor, and at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1935 to 1945 he was M.P. for S.W. Norfolk and served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Production. He also acted as chairman of the Conservative committee on the future constitution of Burma, and as vice-chairman of the Imperial Affairs Committee in the House. He is on the executive of the United Nations Association and is chairman of its National Appeal Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency – Biography of Platts-Mills

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency – Biography of Platts-Mills

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury

    CANDIDATE : Platts-Mills

    PARTY : Ind.Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. F. F. Platts-Mills entered Parliament in 1945 as Labour member for Finsbury. He early took an independent line on many questions, especially in foreign affairs and finally was expelled from the party in 1948, since when he has described himself as a Labour Independent. He was born in New Zealand in 1906 and educated at the Victoria University there and later at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is a barrister.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Central Constituency – Biography of Rose

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Central Constituency – Biography of Rose

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Central

    CANDIDATE : Rose

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Rose, secretary to an export firm, was born in 1922. He served in the war with the County of London Yeomanry as a tank commander and was awarded the Royal Hellenic Military Cross for services with the Greek Brigade in the desert. For two years after demobilization he was secretary of” the Association for Jewish Ex-Service Men and Women.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Steward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Steward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich West

    CANDIDATE : Steward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Steward is a business man with interests in restaurants, advertising publicity, and farming. He was returned to the L.C.C. for West Woolwich last year. He is active in many local organizations, including the British Legion and the United Nations’ Association; and is a governor of King’s Warren School, Plums tead.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Hastings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Hastings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barking

    CANDIDATE : Hastings

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Somerville Hastings, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, first sat in Parliament for Reading, winning the seat in 1923 and in 1929. In 1932 he became a member of the London County Council, and in 1944 its chairman. He was first president of the Socialist Medical Association, and is chairman of the Health Advisory Committee of the Labour Party, and also a member of the executive. A son of the Rev. H. G. Hastings, he was born in 1878 and educated at Wycliffe College and the University of London. A former president of the otological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was elected member for Barking in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bebington

    CANDIDATE : White

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Graham White has had a long career in Parliament, where he became a recognized spokesman for the Liberals on financial and economic affairs. He sat for Birkenhead East in the 1922 Parliament, was defeated in 1924, and regained the seat in 1929, and held it until 1945. Appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1931, he resigned the year after when the National Government introduced a general measure of protection. He was a member of the Curtis Committee, and one of the M.P.s who visited Buchenwald camp in 1945. Born in 1880, he is a stockbroker.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Aston

    CANDIDATE : Embrey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Embrey is keenly interested in the British Legion. Aged 41, he is employed by a wge firm as a costs accountant. He was a territorial before the war and was at Dunkirk with h wth the 8th Bn., The Royal Warwickshire K-egiment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham King’s Norton

    CANDIDATE : Bradbeer

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Bradbeer was born in London in 1890. He has given many years of public service to Birmingham. Educated at King’s College and the London School of Economics, he was for nine years in the chief accountant’s office of the Great Northern Railway. He then entered the employment of Cadbury Bros., Bournville, and was secretary of the works council. For six years from 1925, he served on the Birmingham City Council, and then after a lapse of two years was again elected. He became an alderman in 1945 and was Lord Mayor in 1946-47.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Stechford

    CANDIDATE : Pitt

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. Pitt is the first woman to contest a Birmingham constituency in the Conservative interest. A resident in the Stechford division, she was born in Birmingham in 1906. She is an industrial welfare officer, and a member of the Birmingham City Council and is also active in women’s and youth organizations.

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